# Databricks CEO says Genie now handles his org and project analysis

> Original title: A year ago, I ran @databricks totally differently from today. Getting stuff done at Databricks involved calling ppl, scheduling meetings,...

- Source: Ali Ghodsi
- Published: 2026-11-11T16:06:29.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/lnu2icyi1xtg10o06dbgm2hvr
- Original: https://x.com/alighodsi/status/2120548727769456946

## Summary

Databricks CEO Ali Ghodsi says he now runs the company mostly through Genie, which works in the background to analyze org charts, Slack activity, and culture survey data. He cites three examples from one week: finding stalled projects in the org chart, building a dashboard on an internal project from Slack and source code, and identifying which leaders are AI-pilled. Ghodsi says these tasks used to take hours of meetings and waiting on the data science team, and attributes the capability to Genie's access to an Agentic Ontology.

## Post

A year ago, I ran @databricks totally differently from today. Getting stuff done at Databricks involved calling ppl, scheduling meetings, and lots of back and forth.

Today, I just wake up and use Genie, which works for me in the background. I often just use the phone app to queue up work in the background.

Three examples from just this week:
→ Org charts. How do we flatten the org? It literally found me the hotspots where many projects had gotten stuck. Turns out the data was already in the ontology graph.

→ New internal project everyone raves about (Keanu). Genie monitored the slack channel, got all the insights, correlated them with the source code, and gave me a dashboard of what I needed. 

→ New culture survey. Used ontology to figure out from the org chart, work output, and survey scores, which leaders are AI pilled. Why certain scores (e.g. work-life balance) are so low. 

These are things that used to take me hours and many meetings, often waiting for the data science team. This is possible because Genie has access to an Agentic Ontology, so it proactively does all the work in the background for me. 

Learn more about our next-generation release of Genie:
http://databricks.com/blog/new-genie-autonomous-ai-complex-enterprise-work